(The Rust Bucket and its now 7 occupants drove down the road as Ben, Jen, Gwen and Becky continued talking to Cooper.)
Cooper: "...And I'm pretty good with computers and stuff like that."
Gwen: "Really?"
(Gwen asked.)
Gwen: "Then you'll love this, Cooper. It's the new XT-9000 with satellite uplink."
(She showed him her computer and smiled brightly.)
Gwen: "Use it whenever you like."
Ben: "No fair, Gwen!"
(Ben said.)
Jen: "Yeah, that's bribery! Whoever gets the tickets is going to get them fair and square!"
(Jen said, closing the computer.)
Becky: "Oh."
(Becky said as she dove and saw a gift basket that Ben had made.)
Becky: "And what do you call this, Ben?"
Jen: "Ben! I thought we agreed that we wouldn't do that!"
Ben: "Were not all as selfish as those two are. Some of us enjoy sharing."
Gwen: "I'm telling Grandpa!"
(Gwen said.)
Becky: "That what? That you're torturing poor Cooper?"
(Becky asked.)
Allison: "I am so entertained by this."
(Allison laughed from her bed on the couch as she watched the show unfold and ate at the tortilla chips.)
Max: "Ben, Jen, get up here."
(Max said.)
Gwen: "Ooh, busted!"
(Gwen said with a smile.)
Max: "The rest of you too."
(Max said as Gwen and Becky gasped.)
Max: "And Allison as well."
(They got up and walked over to the front of the RV as Cooper looked on, concerned.)
Max: "Check this out, guys."
(Max said as the kids looked over on the cameras.)
Max: "I just picked this up from one of the security cameras in Fort Knox."
(They looked at the black and white camera to see the Circus Freaks walking into the Vault without any of the gold, suspiciously.)
(Acid Breath turned to the camera and breathed his putrid breath onto it that destroyed the camera.)
Cooper: "Who are those freaks in the video?"
(Cooper asked.)
(Everyone gasped and looked behind them to see their new friend spying on them.)
Ben: "It's just a video!"
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Of..."
Jen: "Music!"
(Jen piped in.)
Jen: "Yeah, a music video! Starring that new group..."
Gwen: "Psycho Circus Freaks!"
(Gwen said as the five kids all smiled awkwardly as Allison's eye started to involuntarily twitch awkwardly.)
Cooper: "Seriously, guys? That old story's the best you can come up with? I know you're the Omni-Team. My grandpa was a Plumber, too you know. Max told him all about you guys, the Omnitrix, the spellbooks, the Null Void, everything."
Allison: "Really, Max?"
(Allison asked as the old man just shrugged.)
Cooper: "So, what's up with the freaks in the video?"
Jen: "Old enemies of ours."
(Jen explained.)
Jen: "But what were they doing in Fort Knox?"
Becky: "Let's find out."
(Becky said.)
(At Fort Knox, the Rust Bucket drove up as Jen looked up at Fort Knox and the team looked nervously.)
Max: "I think Cooper should stay here."
(Max said.)
Jen: "Don't worry, Grandpa."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "We'll keep an eye on him."
Ben: "Yeah."
(Ben agreed.)
Ben: "He probably wants to see the Omnitrixes in action anyway."
(Gwen and Becky sighed before the team brought their watch hands together in a circle as they smiled.)
Jen: "It's hero time!"
(Jen said as they all pressed the button and changed into their super suits.)
(They then saw the locked door as Matter Girl glared and then absorbed the metal from the lock before she broke it off with her brute strength.)
Matter Girl: "Child's play."
(she said.)
Matter Girl: "Although, I am technically a child."
(They went inside and looked through the area before they all looked around, confused at the lack of security in the area.)
Lucky Girl: "...Okay."
(Lucky Girl said.)
Lucky Girl: "Where are all the guards?"
(They then turned a corner through the shelves and saw the guards clucking and moving their hands like arms through the area as Max looked confused.)
Max: "They must have been hypnotized to think they're chickens."
Huntress: "Hypnotized?"
(Huntress asked.)
Huntress: "Since when can the Circus Freaks hypnotize people?"
Matter Girl: "They can't."
(Matter Girl said.)
Matter Girl: "...But we've come across someone else who can."
(The team then came across the vault which was completely opened after the inside of door was completely melted and still dripping burnt liquid metal.)
Omni-Green: "Now this seems more like Acid Breath's handiwork."
(Omni-Green said.)
Lucky Girl: "Freak puke?"
(Lucky Girl asked.)
Lucky Girl: "Oh, Gross with a capital G!"
(Suddenly, they heard a zapping noise and looked to see the hypnotized guards drooling and blasting out their weapons right towards them.)
(Omni-Pink put up an energy shield and blocked the blasts as the team moved behind some crates for shelter.)
Cooper: "Why are they firing at us?"
(Cooper asked.)
Cooper: "We're the good guys!"
Huntress: "Yeah, we get that a lot."
(Huntress said as she prepared her bow.)
(The twins looked down to see the guards that were hypnotized into acting like chickens were clucking and pecking in the middle of the hallway as the other guards blasted down onto them and Omni-Pink gasped in horror.)
Omni-Pink: "Those chickens are going to get fried!"
(she said as she and Omni-Ben slammed the cores down.)
(His hands then lost two fingers and morphed into black scissor-like claws before his entire structure started to take on a more velociraptor-like state and his skin grew blue with black-armor like plating with pink on the center as well as her feet morphing into a ball-like structure and his eyes turned fully green and he grew a long blue and black striped tail and his head into a more triangular shape before his face was covered with a black visor with green lighting as he struck a pose, finishing his transformation into XLR8.)
(Jen's skin turned a deep fuchsia pink and it shifted up to her eyes as she clutched them closed and she opened them to reveal they had turned a fully deep pink and a more compound shape as she smiled to the camera.)
(Two antennae grew from her forehead and her hair turned a deep pink.)
(Her clothes turned into a pink skintight one-piece leotard with the Omnitrix symbol on the belt.)
(Two slits opened in the back of her outfit and two large pink, purple and red patterned wings burst forth.)
(She flapped them rapidly and posed for the camera.)
Cooper: "Whoa!"
(Cooper said as XLR8 and Battlefly stood before him and the latter started flying in the air.)
Cooper: "That's even cooler in person than it is watching it on TV!"
XLR8: "If you think that's cool, try this."
(XLR8 said as he sped off and grabbed the chicken guards before dropping them into the barrels nearby as they clucked in fear while Battlefly flew overhead.)
(She then touched down on the ground next to the guards on the balcony that aimed their blasters at her.)
Battlefly: "Look."
(she said.)
Battlefly: "I don't want to hurt you guys."
(The guards aimed their blasters at her and immediately opened fire as she flew away to avoid them, ducking behind a crate.)
Battlefly: "Guess the feeling's not mutual."
(She then flew downwards and slammed into them with extremely strong punches, knocking them out after a single punch each.)
(She dusted off her hands before she felt an explosion on the balcony and fell off of it into her brother's arms as they looked to see more guards with more powerful artillery approach and knocked them unconscious with a whack to the head each.)
(The others stood in fear as the guard aimed his rocket launcher at them as Lucky Girl stood in front and prepared herself as her tattoos and eyes started glowing.)
(All of a sudden, a forklift suddenly drove up and slammed into the guards, knocking them out and sending their weapons flying.)
(Lucky Girl stopped as the others looked to see Cooper pat a wrench in his hand with a smile on his face.)
(XLR8 and Battlefly came too as they saw Cooper and met up with the others.)
Matter Girl: "How did you do that?"
(Matter Girl asked.)
Cooper: "I told you I was pretty good with mechanical stuff."
Huntress: "Let's take a look at the vault."
(Huntress said as they all went inside the destroyed vault door and looked around at the tons of golden bars inside.)
Battlefly: "Wait a minute..."
(Battlefly said, looking around.)
Battlefly: "All the gold's still here?"
Lucky Girl: "Are you serious?"
(Lucky Girl asked.)
XLR8: "So let me get this straight."
(XLR8 said.)
XLR8: "The Circus Freaks break into the toughest bank into the world, hypnotize all the guards into thinking that they're chickens, but they forget to steal any of the gold? It just doesn't make any sense!"
Cooper: "Unless..."
(Cooper suggested.)
Cooper: "They weren't after the gold. Maybe they were looking for something else. Check this out, guys."
(They looked and their eyes widened as they saw a hole in the vault that led into some kind of cavern.)
(They all walked down into the cavern to see the large amount of dusty gadgets lining the shelves as the Omnitrixes timed out.)
Jen: "What is this place?"
(Jen asked as she and Ben removed their helmets and held them under their arms.)
Max: "A blast from the past."
(Max explained to the six kids.)
Max: "It's an old Plumbers base."
Lucky Girl: "Like the one at Mt. Rushmore?"
(Lucky Girl asked.)
Max: "Not exactly. At the height of the Plumbers, some satellite complexes were established around the country in hidden locations like this one. Once we brought down Vilgax the first time, there was no need for these annexes anymore, so we eventually shut them all down."
Matter Girl: "But if it wasn't the gold that the Circus Freaks were after, what did they want here then?"
(Matter Girl asked.)
Max: "I don't know."
(Max said, rubbing his head.)
Max: "And that's what really bothers me."
(The camera shifted over to an indentation in a key shape which indicated that something was missing.)
Acid Breath: "This guy's brain pan is empty!"
(Acid Breath said as his posse and Sublimino gathered inside an abandoned barn with some kind of mechanical key in his hands.)
Acid Breath: "Look at this stupid piece of junk."
(Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a metal cable fired towards the freaks and wrapped around the key yanking it out of their hands and into the outstretched arm of the ninja from earlier.)
(He leaped down from the balcony and got down onto one knee, presenting it to a figure who stepped out, revealing himself to be the heavily armored Forever Knight from the complex where the twins were sedated in dreamland.)
???: "Is there a problem?"
Acid Breath: "Yeah."
(Acid Breath said, pointing to Sublimino.)
Acid Breath: "Bad enough you paired us up with the amazing nerd here, but then we pull off the heist of the century and don't even have a gold tooth to show for it!"
???: "I find your lack of faith disturbing, Mr. Breath. Or may I call you 'Acid'?From now on you can call me 'Boss!' Because I'm taking over this operation!"
Acid Breath: "Since only one of us can have that honor, allow me to cast my vote."
(The Forever Ninja leaped upwards and unsheathed his swords before leaping towards Frightwig, who sent out her hair tendrils, which the ninja avoided with intense skill and agility.)
(The hair inadvertently wrapped around her leader the weights at the ends slamming into his head and knocking him out.)
(The ninja then delivered a flying kick to Frightwig, sending her flying into some nearby wooden crates.)
(Thumbskull came running up with a shout before the ninja simply grabbed him and tossed him into some other crates with surprising skill.)
Forever King: "Now that that's settled, let's get back to the business at hand, shall we?"
(the Forever King asked.)
[To Be Continued...]